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Obama reframes his approach to climate change - The Washington Post

[11-minute video] August 14, 2013 9:31 AM EDT — President Obama in his 2013 State of the Union Address promised to tackle climate change. Six months later, how is he doing? Nia-Malika Henderson talks to Jeff Goodell of Rolling Stone about whether the rest of Obama's presidency will bring changes in environmental policy. (The Washington Post)

Eastern Arctic Ice Extent Declined By 20% From 1920 To 1939 | Real Science

Students Fight To Kick Carbon Off Campuses | ThinkProgress

UNC-Chapel Hill is finding out how difficult it is to change energy sources

Not so bright lights

[Rucker/Flanakin] “Renewable energy” is a deliberate false labeling strategy, designed to curry favor with trendy urbanites who are ignorant about energy and economic reality. The real cost to U.S. economic growth, jobs and living standards from following the Green Brick Road to ecological paradise is equally beyond their ken.

This is energy policy by and for not-so-bright lights, who let their religious fervor for anything not hydrocarbon get in the way of common sense and fact-based analysis. Their policies will result in dim bulbs in our future light fixtures – and expensive, job-killing energy for other needs. We cannot afford to continue going down this suicidal path.

Twitter / ChairmanAl: IEA: 13.12% of world’s energy ...

IEA: 13.12% of world’s energy came from renewables in 1971, In 2011 12.99%. http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-falling-share-of-renewables-in-global-energy-production-by-bj-rn-lomborg … Bjørn Lomborg. pic.twitter.com/YkMvU3mbZl